by Will » Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:34 am
"Removing the filter" is always a dangerous option in any experiment. Ashlie was correct in assuming that the panel would be shred by this action. She may, however, be incorrect in her assumption on just how said panel would break.
For a moment after the filter was disabled, there was nothing -- no response, no further resonance with the mysterious energy field, no quantum tunneling effect. It was almost like, in absence of the directed quantum entanglement, the Will-reactor was maintaining it's last given directives. That was rather interesting in and of itself, and Ashlie would have about 10 seconds to consider the ramifications of that before the sounds of splintering bone and tearing sinews and smashing metal filled the room.
Throughout this entire process of being reshaped and twisted around, Will had maintained a humanoid form -- or what could pass for one when you're being divided and subdivided in fractal shapes over and over. And even now, he maintained a biological form as everything suddenly went into massive overdrive. A shard of what appeared to be bone -- but couldn't be, just from the sheer structural integrity of the spike -- shattered through the copper walls of the reactor core, followed quickly by several matching sets. What...might have been a leg kicked its way out of another hole, followed by another, and another -- limbs more than legs, appendages more than limbs, shifting and twisting and reshaping themselves as they wriggled in the open air.
The core groaned and shrieked as it was pressed to it's limit, and then beyond, shattering open at any seams, joints and weakspots, as ripples of swelling, pulsating and twisted flesh burst its way out. Here and there eyes formed, opening and shutting, rolling around and darting across the room before they sunk back into the mass. Mouths orifices cut gashes into flesh; yowling, keening, howling before being swallowed back up. Boney protrusions shot their way out of the mass before muscles, sinew and skin wrapped its way back around them, as the out-of-control shifter continued to expand.
And yes, in the process, a limb kicked the panel. So, one point for Ashlie's predictions/